Problems with Pioneer/Asus DVR104?

[ktpnet]

Hi!

A few hours ago, but after much deliberation, I bought the Asus DVR 104 DVD-R/RW, which is basically the Pioneer 104.

As soon as I installed it, I immediately started the 'Disk Wizard' in the 'Cyberlink Power Director Pro' software that came with the drive, this part of the software allows me to easily burn a DVD. I already had a lot of AVI files on my hard disk and selected a smallish file and followed the instructions to burn a DVD. Note I selected US NTSC format. My DVD player (we'll come to that later) plays only region 1, I bought the Asus Drive in Asia, where I am and where the standard is region 2, I think. Anyway, after a long time, the DVD burned successfully, and I was able to play this DVD on both WinDVD as well as Asus DVD player that came with it. Note that I used the RW disk that came with the drive to burn this DVD. My Region 1 DVD player is the Sharp DV-740, which has played all the CDRs and everything else that I have thrown at it for the last one year.

Unfortunately, the DVD that was burnt on the Asus RW disk, does NOT work on my Sharp DV-740. I do not have access to another standalone DVD player to see if this disk is playable in any other. I would have been content if I had used some kind of cheap media and that didn't play on the standalone player. What I am worried about is that I have never heard of anyone complaining that they had problems reading from the RW disks provided.

Could it be a region issue? When the movie was playing in the computer, I went to properties, and noted that the 'title media was Region 1,2,3,4,5,6 all'. Note the original movie/clip that I burnt was in NTSC also.

I am aware I may be overreacting just a bit but I sure would be grateful if anyone who has gone through these share your experiences with me..

Thanks very much in advance.

Rick

[va_bank]

It could be an issue of your DVD player just not supporting the RW. Try burning the same project on a DVD-R.